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 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
    Janet Smith
    August 05 2007 at 03:41PM
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Former police officer Danie Krugel, whose "magic box" was featured in a Carte Blanche programme on the missing girls connected to paedophile Gert van Rooyen, may be working on another device.

And there are rumours he sold the first device, the Matter Orientation System (MOS) to an overseas buyer for R13-million.

He says the MOS uses "compassionate quantum physics" to track the dead or vanished.

After his second appearance on the M-Net show Krugel, a Christian who shuns psychics, has been derided by sceptics. But Susan Puren, a Carte Blanche journalist, believes the detractors are wrong.

For Krugel, she says, it was an emotional journey to Pretoria's lower-middle-class suburb Capital Park where, he said, investigators could locate the remains of the missing girls.
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He said his contraption found their traces on neglected Spoornet land a few blocks from Van Rooyen's "house of horrors" in Malherbe Street.

He also said one of the girls, Yolanda Wessels, was buried under a eucalyptus tree that is now marked with a large white "Y" and candy-striping.

Two others, Fiona Harvey and Anne-Marie Wapenaar, were placed either in or near a dam, since bulldozed. Rubble, a dry pan littered with detritus, and dense reeds used as a toilet by workers are all that remain.

Puren said she met Retha Meintjies, the deputy director of public prosecutions, at her Church Square office to relay Carte Blanche's information. But Meintjies - prolific in dealing with sexual offences cases - did not return calls.

Krugel says that, mostly using hair, he is able to trace missing people, or their remains. The MOS works "primarily with DNA using GPS infrastructure", he says.

No one has yet examined the device. Puren's understanding is that "what must be" a computer of some kind occasionally jerks to life and shakes briefly when it makes contact, which is why he must be alone when working with it.


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